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5 hours ago, Cool Hand said:

Thanks Mathias.

 

ha ha, cheers Bob

 

Thank you, all the window trim and trim on the trunk/boot is Bare Metal Foil, everything else is Alclad chrome.

I always pre scribe window trim at the body prep stage. Its a tedious time consuming task. But makes it so much easier to trim the foil and get much cleaner edges.

Great tip. Thanks very much for the heads up! 

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Continuing with trying to finish some stalled builds, I have the 57 Belair snap kit back on the bench, wet sanded, polished and applied the bmf. Hoping that will provide some motivation to get it complete.

On 2/8/2022 at 1:39 AM, Cool Hand said:

I really dont like painting metallics and pearls, as I am not very good applying them especially with an airbrush. Thats why I like to paint everything black, but that gets boring and there are some very nice colours out there.

Thats what the 57 is all about, experimenting, learning and doing something other than black.

Got it painted, I was worried about the texture on the trim from the pearl, so masked it before applying the paint.

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Got a bit of pebbling on the trunk near lower window trim, and few here and there. Oh well, live and learn. Will wipe some of when fully dry and hope to bury the rest in the clear.

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Cant wait to see this cleared and in the sunlight.

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Posted
8 hours ago, espo said:

Looks so much cleaner without the big aluminum splash on the side. 

Agreed!  It’s such a nice clean look!

Great looking build!

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Have been on a good roll getting some stalled builds completed, so got to keep a good thing going while I can.

Decided to bring this stalled build back on the bench to hopefully get completed.

Just today it was wet sanded and polished with Tamiya compounds 

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18 minutes ago, Cool Hand said:

Have been on a good roll getting some stalled builds completed, so got to keep a good thing going while I can.

Decided to bring this stalled build back on the bench to hopefully get completed.

Just today it was wet sanded and polished with Tamiya compounds 

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Oh yeah.  Looking pretty sweet there Luke.  You going to leave those Big ole meats exposed so you can see them through the back glass?

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On 9/6/2024 at 1:40 AM, Zippi said:

You going to leave those Big ole meats exposed so you can see them through the back glass?

It has the full interior, was built as the typical Aussie Street Machine Burnout car. 

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